August Thon

August Thon (born February 18, 1839 in Weimar , † March 18, 1912 in Jena ) was a German legal scholar.

Life

August Thon came from a Weimar civil servant family. He was born the son of Weimar State Minister Gustav Thon (born February 20, 1805 in Eisenach; † December 12, 1882 in Weimar). He completed his law studies from 1857 at the University of Heidelberg , the University of Jena and the University of Göttingen . On August 14, 1861, he received his doctorate in Jena on the subject of the doctrine of the in factum actiones (Weimar 1863) and completed his habilitation in 1863 at the University of Heidelberg with the dissertation The Jus Offerendi of the better pledgee under Roman law (Heidelberg 1863 ) as a private lecturer. On October 1, 1867, he became a district court assessor in Eisenach , in 1870 a public prosecutor in Eisenach and in 1872 the first public prosecutor in Weimar. In 1873 he received a full professorship for the Roman law of the Pandects at the University of Rostock . However, he was drawn back to his home in Thuringia, where on October 1, 1879, as a full professor of law, he took over the direction of the department for criminal law and criminal procedure of the legal seminar, was academic advisor at the Schöppenstuhl and a higher regional judge July 1893 exercised.

His main literary work, Legal Norms and Subjective Law, was written in Rostock . Studies on general legal theory (Weimar 1878). Thon also took part in the organizational tasks of the Jena University. He was dean of the law faculty several times and in the summer semesters 1883, 1894, and in the winter semester 1905 rector of the Alma Mater . At times, from the seventh to the eighth edition, Thon participated in the publication of the dictionary on the sources of Roman law . He was given the title of a secret judicial council of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach, he became commander of the House Order of the White Falcon and was given the second class Commander- in-Chief of the Saxony Ernestine House Order . On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of his doctorate, the Jena Faculty of Law published a festive edition for August Thon (Jena 1911, new print Frankfurt am Main 1987). One of his students was his later assistant Justus Wilhelm Hedemann .

August Thon had married Johanne Luden (born June 15, 1845 in Jena; † June 28, 1941 ibid.), The daughter of Jena law professor Johann Heinrich Gottlieb Luden . The marriage remained childless.

literature

• German legal journal. (DJZ) 1911, p. 1075 ( digitized version ) and 1912, p. 501 ( digitized version )
• Gustav Zieler, Theodor Scheffer: The academic Germany. Biographical-bibliographical manual for the universities of the German Empire as a supplement to the German university calendar. Scheffer, Leipzig, 1905, vol. 2, p. 6 ( digitized version )
• Hermann August Ludwig Degner: Who is it? Our contemporaries. Contemporary Lexicon. Degner, Leipzig, 1908, 3rd edition, p. 1387
• German Order Almanac. (OA) Berlin, 1908/09, column 1545 ( digitized version )
• Richard Kukula: Bibliographical yearbook of German universities. Wagner, Innsbruck, 1892, p. 926 ( digitized version )
• Ernst Pilz: Lecturer album of the University of Jena, 1858 to 1908. Neuenhahn, Jena, 1908, p. 23
• State manual for the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach 1880. Böhlau, Weimar, 1880, pp. 145, 148, 158, 165

Web links

• Entry on August Thon in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium
• Literature about August Thon in the state bibliography MV